Hi all,
I’ve just unboxed and set up my new iPad (woohoo!), and am curious to know about the multitasking features unique to the iPad; I’ve been an iPhone user now for 6+ years, and an iPad user for around 4 or 5 years, but I’ve never owned an iPad capable of the multitasking features. I’m aware of slideover, picture-in-picture and split view, but have no idea how they work, or how to activate them using Voiceover. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
By Kelsey, 11 March, 2018
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iOS and iPadOS
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Basically, the key to multitasking on the iPad is the dock. To start experimenting, open an app. Go to the bottom of the screen and flick up with two fingers to bring up the dock. Find the app there that you want and flick down on it to explore the actions.
The ones you want to play with at first are pin app to the left and pin app to the right. You now have the first app you opened on one side, and an iPhone sized version of the second app with a devider in the middle of the screen. Flick up and down to control the sizes of the two apps and so on.
The other thing to remember is that the two apps are now linked together. If you, say, multitask mail and safari, opening mail will also bring up safari and vice versa. The way to disconnect them is either using the devider or close the combined app in the app switcher.
I'd suggest playing with that for a bit. Slide over with voiceover tends to be a little trickier to deal with.
instructions
To use two apps at once, do the following:
One final note
these two apps are essentially treated as one in every way, including in the switcher. So if you were to navigate away from both of these apps and go into the switcher, you'd see the two apps as one, making it really easy to return to what you were doing.A note on picture in picture
This one is probably the easiest to activate out of any of them, but it's also the one with which I have the least experience. As far as I've seen, a "play in picture in picture" button will appear on any regular video control bar on a website. Just press that, and now you can leave safari and be happy when your audio doesn't stop. HTHKeyboard
I am actually using a bluetooth keyboard with a case to my iPad. I got my iPad last summer. I can use the iPad nearlly like a computer. It is cool. To access dock just press vo+d. Or cmd+d.